ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,043, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Stay management apparatus, stay management method, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program, and stay management system" was invented by Tatsuki Akutsu (Tokyo) and Akira Kamei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stay management apparatus includes a registration unit for acquiring a face image of a visitor and to register the face image, an entry control unit for authenticating the visitor based on authentication target information that is associated with identification information of the visitor and to permit entry of the visitor, an acquisition unit for...